My favorite Gen Z story.
We lost track of an employee for a few days—he was supposed to be in the NYC office and they had not heard from him and he was not answering his home phone or cell phone.
Everybody figured he has just quit...
Until the folks in the Los Angeles office saw him walk into their office.
He explained he had decided to move to LA and join their office.
The big bosses were stunned—never heard of anything like that before....
Their decision was to tell him to report to the New York City office by the next morning or he was fired...
He got on a plane and showed up in the NYC office the next day.
Lol. Have to give gen z credit for being daring and trying to push the boundaries. You don’t know what the boundaries are until you push them.
I had a millennial who missed three days with no real excuse for the absence and I informed her if she missed anymore in the next thirty days she would be terminated, this was a Friday afternoon meeting. This had happened a couple of times before and I documented each time.
Monday she was a no show and I tried calling her, no answer, so I sent her an email terminating her for job abandonment. Tuesday she come bopping in to clock in and I said what are you doing here? I’m coming to work she replied. I said I tried calling you and I emailed you, you have been terminated for job abandonment, we discussed your ongoing issue of not showing up for work Friday and I told you the consequences of missing another day in the next thirty days. She bellowed I went to the lake and got sunburned and didn’t feel like coming in, did you want me to come in naked! I said I expected you here and you didn’t bother to even call. She wailed this is BS! I said it maybe in your eyes but we are done here, you need to leave now. I’ll go to your supervisor she railed! I said fly to it, he knows all about it. He told her you were told about your absences and backed me to the hilt.
At least they gave him a second chance. That’s more than some employers would do.
My boss hired a young lady who came in the first day and then just didn’t show up after that. When she had hired me, I was so desperate for a job that I offered to work free for the first week so that she could gauge if I were worth training. Happily for my gas expenses, she paid me anyway and even gave me and my co-worker her business when she retired.